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Post #156,127
by inthane-chan
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5/20/04 5:33:48 PM
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New Quite aware of that situation.
I've done GUI app development (in an educational context only) in Java via Swing, VB, VC++, and VC#. Of all of the methods for layout, Swing freaked me out having such a different way of handling controls. I'm so used to the idea of fixed pixel points that having something like that kinda overwhelms me. The .Nyet interface has some limited Swing-like mapping options, but not many that I've seen so far.

Probably should give some of those others a shot one of these days.
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Post #156,137
by tonytib
5/20/04 7:10:36 PM
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New It's worth checking out
The idea also works very nicely for program configuration dialogs. I use Metakit to store the info (and have the Python class automatically create the class variables from the database).

I'm pretty sure there are open source projects out there with a similar approach, but using XML -- basically creating a UI specified by an XML file.

I've heard that some of the Swing layout managers are hard to grasp. You might want to look at John Grayson's Python and Tkinter Programming book; he does some very interesting things with Tkinter.

Tony
     VB.Net, C# and Delphi are the same way - (altmann) - (7) - May 19, 2004, 04:45:47 PM EDT
         I'm not sure I see where you're going... - (jb4) - (6) - May 19, 2004, 05:27:58 PM EDT
             Re: I'm not sure I see where you're going... - (altmann) - (5) - May 19, 2004, 06:30:22 PM EDT
                 It's actually quite useful - (tonytib) - (4) - May 20, 2004, 01:28:31 PM EDT
                     You can do that in VB... - (inthane-chan) - (3) - May 20, 2004, 03:51:01 PM EDT
                         Yes, you can, but.... - (tonytib) - (2) - May 20, 2004, 05:03:50 PM EDT
                             Quite aware of that situation. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - May 20, 2004, 05:33:48 PM EDT
                                 It's worth checking out - (tonytib) - May 20, 2004, 07:10:36 PM EDT

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